Here is what I found. The driver is the issue with Yosemite. The built-in FTDI driver prevents the osx-pl2303 driver from loading. The fix (not for the faint of heart) is to do some black magic at the command line.
In Terminal, enter:
sudo nvram boot-args="kext-dev-mode=1"
This allows other drivers to load. The driver that works for me is the Lion driver from miklor.com.
Then manually load the driver (first time only, it will load automatically after that) with this command in Terminal:
sudo kextload /System/Library/Extensions/osx-pl2303.kext
This creates the device cu.PL2303-000012FD, be sure that is what you select in the CHIRP Radio dialog in the Port drop-down. Again in the Terminal, do "cd /dev", and then "ls" (without the quotes) to see that the cu.PL2303-000012FD driver is actually loaded.
I got this technique from this website https://www.mostlynetworks.com/2014/11/os-x-yosemite-prolific-usb-drivers/.
On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 5:54 AM, Ryan Tourge ryan.tourge@gmail.com wrote:
Once you install the python "stuff" that is referenced in Dave's link it should run with no issues. I use Chirp on a mac but not 10.10. I think I'm at 10.9. If you are still having trouble I'll upgrde and see if we can work through it as others will undoubtely have the similar issues.
On 6/28/15, Dave Nathanson KG6ZJO@nathanson.org wrote:
You may also find some useful Mac OS X tips here: http://chirp.danplanet.com/projects/chirp/wiki/MacOS_Tips
Best, Dave Nathanson KG6ZJO
On Jun 28, 2015, at 3:16 PM, YL3IM yl3im@ham.lv wrote:
http://trac.chirp.danplanet.com/chirp_daily/LATEST/chirp-daily-20150623.app....
| Is there a version of CHIRP (or an alternate) that works on a Mac? (OS10.10)
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